The Rocky
Mountain Wildlife Park is a privately owned facility in operation since
1986. Our purpose is to educate
people about native Colorado wildlife and provide an opportunity
to see these beautiful animals up close in natural
habitats.

All
of our animals are non-releasable. Some are
rescues
from people who had them as pets and realized they
don’t make good pets or they were orphaned and DOW declared
them non-releasable due to their lack of fear of people. Others
were born in captivity either at our facility or at another facility.
We strive to keep them all content and healthy.

Video
made in 2005.

Regardless
of their history, our animals have lost their natural fear of people
and do not have the skills to survive in the wild. If released,
they would most likely be killed
trying to get to people for food or starve to death due to lack of
survival skills. Additionally, none of our animals are candidates for
rehabilitation for release to the wild due to human acclimation. Their
only other option would be death if they were not in a zoo.